Blue origin reduces 10 % of its employees
Blue Orige, the company owned by Ceff Bezos, dismantles nearly 10 percent of the workforce, according to an email sent to the employees on Thursday, and the New York Times was seen.
Discounts, which can affect about 1,000 roles, follow several years of rapid growth and successful launch last month of New Glenn, the massive reintegor missile of the company.
The company has become inflated, and that the cuts will be in engineering, research, development, project management and public administrative classes.
He added that the leaders of Blue Orige had decided that their priority for 2025 and beyond was “to expand our result in manufacturing and release speed, decomposition and efficiency for our customers.”
The blue asset does not reveal the number of employees they have, but its workforce is widely estimated at more than 10,000 people.
Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, poured billions in blue. He has long described a vision to create human colonies in space, and he said that reducing the cost of launching goods into space was very important. But his company failed to develop the Spacex Spacex Elon Musk.
In late 2023, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Limp, a former executive in Amazon, rented to operate the blue origin and instill him with a feeling of urgency. Chad Anderson, an investor emerging at Space Capital, said that the company, which flowed with money from Mr. Bezos, was in a permanent research and development course.
“When you have an unlimited amount of money, you do not have the same feeling of scarcity and necessity,” said Mr. Anderson.
The employees were preparing to lay off the workers for some time. Late Wednesday, they received an invitation to hold a virtual meeting at 7 am on Thursday. In the eight -minute session, Mr. Limb announced the cuts. At 7:10, follow an electronic mail at the company level confirming the demobilization of workers.
Mr. Limp said in the email that the company will continue to “employ hundreds of positions.”
During the appearance of Wednesday at the commercial space conference in Washington, DC, Mr. Limp was optimistic about the blue origin and did not give any hint that he was about to say goodbye to one out of every 10 employees.
“We have a lot of work in front of us, but we have achieved a lot of progress last year on the basics, acting quickly and converting us to a global manufacturer,” said Mr. Limp. “I think we have made some progress. We have a lot to do this year too.”
The BE-4-used in New Glenn Rockt increased from New Origen and the Volcan missile that was built by UNITED Launch Alliance- to about one per week. “By the way, it will double or three times over the next 12 to 18 months,” he added.
Mr. Limp said that the blue origin is on the right path to launch a march to the moon this year. Although this will only carry goods, not people, it will test the techniques that will be used in a larger exhibition that NASA’s blue origin is developed and its Artemis program is developed.
Mr. Limp said: “We have reached all our features.” “We are still on the right track, we are subject to the ARTEMIS table.”
Mr. Limp said that even this smaller landing will be greater than anything else that landed on the surface of the moon, including the lands used by NASA astronauts during the Apollo program.
Mr. Limp was also bullied in the Trump administration management plans, even if these space plans were not yet clear. “The increasing focus on the space in the first month of this administration is great to see,” he said. “We are clearly fans.”
Even if NASA is raising her attention from the moon to Mars – the preferred destination of Mr. Musk – blue origin techniques will be suitable for this long journey as well. “You can treat them a little like LEGO’s brick,” said Mr. Limp. “It turns out that the mission of Mars or the shipping task to Mars is to reuse the vast majority of these.”